--- title: TCS+ | What South African businesses are getting wrong... description: Many South African businesses are spending heavily on cloud with little return. Joel Chacko from Vodacom Business and Jonathan Oaker from CloudZA discuss why... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/tcs-what-south-african-businesses-are-getting-wrong-about-cloud-gy55ek9zo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: TCS+ | What South African businesses are getting wrong about cloud | daily.dev og:description: Many South African businesses are spending heavily on cloud with little return. Joel Chacko from Vodacom Business and Jonathan Oaker from CloudZA discuss why... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/tcs-what-south-african-businesses-are-getting-wrong-about-cloud-gy55ek9zo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gY55eK9ZO.png og:image:alt: TCS+ | What South African businesses are getting wrong about cloud og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # TCS+ | What South African businesses are getting wrong about cloud **[TechCentral](https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Many South African businesses are spending heavily on cloud with little return. Joel Chacko from Vodacom Business and Jonathan Oaker from CloudZA discuss why cloud adoption often outpaces strategy, leading to cost overruns. They cover common pitfalls like poor governance, skills gaps, and lack of cloud-native thinking, as well as why hybrid and multi-cloud architectures have become standard. The conversation also addresses how to choose the right cloud partner and what organisations should stop doing to get more value from their cloud investments. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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